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Marion Barry held the office for more than ten years before he was caught on video smoking crack and had to step down.
ECONOMIST: The District of Columbia
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About the size of a dollar bill, the mud covered the carpet and spanned the crack of the trapdoor that led down into the three-foot-high crawl space beneath the house.
NPR: Excerpt: 'Killer Weekend'
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When you - you're crack climbing a thin crack, you stick your toes into the crack and then kind of wrench down on to stand up, and it's painful.
NPR: Craig DeMartino: Winner in the Extremity Games
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Hydraulic fracturing, also known as fracking, involves drilling down and creating tiny explosions to crack the hard shale rocks to release the gas inside.
BBC: Drilling for gas
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As for the other incidents that have beset the type over the past few months -- a fan shaft failure on an engine, an oil leak, a windshield crack -- all can safely be put down to teething problems.
CNN: How Boeing can bounce back from Dreamliner problems
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We have a laugh, we have a crack but when it's time to get down to business we get down and train hard -and that's all down to Rob.
BBC: Great Britain amateur boxers praise coach Rob McCracken
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Oil company manager Kaspars Skrabans said he was down at the beach by Jurmala with his family when he noticed that a crack had appeared in the ice extending from the shore out into the gulf.
CNN: More than 220 rescued from ice floes off Latvian coast
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Nick Easter and James Haskell both had a crack and when England recycled for a third time Goode chipped through and won the race to touch down.
BBC: England 36-11 Italy
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Mimicking that forced me down into a better fielding position and kept my view of the ball steady from the crack of the bat to the smack of the glove.
WSJ: Pro Ball Baseball Clinic Weekend
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In 2003 he heard the tale of a cadre of crack engineers who had quit Cray Research, the old supercomputer maker, to explore bringing powerful features down to the world of cheap servers.
FORBES: The New Barbarians
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The crack you put in the wall today becomes the gash tomorrow, which ultimately leads to the wall crumbling down.
CNN: House Judiciary Committee hearing,